Lorraine Hansberry speaking at “Village Rallies for NAACP”

I think it is about time that equipped women began to take on some of the ethical questions which a male-dominated culture has produced and dissect and analyze them quite to pieces in a serious fashion. It is time that ‘half the human race’ had something to say about the nature of its existence. Otherwise—without revised basic thinking—the woman intellectual is likely to find herself trying to draw conclusions—moral conclusions—based on acceptance of a social moral superstructure which has never admitted to the equality of women and is therefore immoral itself.

Lorraine Hansberry speaking at “Village Rallies for NAACP,” in Washington Square Park, June 13, 1959. Photographer unknown. Hansberry was the co-chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Life Membership Committee. The rally was to increase membership, raise funds, and to start a Greenwich Village NAACP branch.